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Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Critical in Iran Hospital After Prison Health Collapse

International appeals focus on moving her to Tehran specialists.

Overview

  • The rights lawyer, transferred from Zanjan prison to a hospital following Friday's catastrophic deterioration, lost consciousness twice and suffered a severe cardiac crisis.
  • She remains in a cardiac care unit in Zanjan with dangerously swinging blood pressure, and doctors are limiting care to oxygen and stabilisation.
  • Her family, lawyers and foundation say she needs procedures that local clinicians cannot perform and argue only her specialist team in Tehran can treat her properly.
  • The Nobel Committee urged her immediate release or transfer, saying her life is in the hands of Iranian authorities.
  • Her husband says the Intelligence Ministry opposes a move to Tehran, as courts in Zanjan and Tehran pass responsibility, and she is serving a new sentence of roughly seven to seven-and-a-half years after a December arrest in Mashhad.